AMAPPS Northeast Aerial Cruise Spring 2012
NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC)
Dataset credit
NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC)
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Contacts
Role | Name | Organization | |
Primary contact |
Beth Josephson |
NOAA Fisheries |
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Data entry |
Ei Fujioka |
Duke University |
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Citation
Josephson, B. 2015. AMAPPS Northeast Aerial Cruise Spring 2012. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1247) on yyyy-mm-dd. Halpin, P.N., A.J. Read, E. Fujioka, B.D. Best, B. Donnelly, L.J. Hazen, C. Kot, K. Urian, E. LaBrecque, A. Dimatteo, J. Cleary, C. Good, L.B. Crowder, and K.D. Hyrenbach. 2009. OBIS-SEAMAP: The world data center for marine mammal, sea bird, and sea turtle distributions. Oceanography. 22(2):104-115.
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Abstract
N/A
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Purpose
The objectives of the NEFSC aerial survey were 1) to estimate abundance of cetaceans and turtles in waters north of New Jersey and shallower than 100 m depth and 2) to investigate how the animals' distribution and abundance relate to their physical and biological ecosystem.
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Supplemental information
Perpendicular distance to the animal is not publicly available.
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References
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Attributes
Overview
This section explains attributes included in the original dataset.
OBIS-SEAMAP restricts the attributes available to the public to date/time, lat/lon and species names/counts only.
Should you need other attributes described here, you are encouraged to contact the data provider.
Attributes described below represent those in the original dataset provided by the provider.
All attributes are included in the downloadable file (CSV or ESRI File Geodatabase) for "Complete Set of Dataset".
Attributes in dataset
Attribute (table column) | Description |
oid | Unique ID number (generated by OBIS-SEAMAP) |
tripid | Trip ID |
platformvlts | Always |
oneffort | Flag (Y/N) to indicate on effort. |
speciescode | Species code |
comname | Common name |
kingdom | Kingdom |
phylum | Phylum |
class | Class |
order_sci | Order |
family | Family |
scientificname | Scientific name |
references_ | References |
observationheight | Altitude of aircraft in feet above sea level |
platformspeed | Speed of the platform at the time of the sighting in knots |
higherinstitutioncode | Higher institution code "DOC:NOAA:NEFSC" |
institutioncode | Institution code "NEFSC" |
ownerinstitutioncode | Instituion who owns the data "NEFSC" |
basisofrecord | Basis of record "HumanObservation" |
recordtype | Record type "VLTS" (visual line transect survey) |
sightid | Sight ID |
individualcount | Individual count |
latitude | Latitude in decimal degrees |
sighttype | Sighting type ("O") |
longitude | Longitude in decimal degrees |
perpendiculardistance | Perpendicular distance to the animal |
datasetid | Dataset ID |
datasetname | Dataset name |
eventdate | Date and time of the sigthing at local time |
eventdatetimezone | The time zone of the observation event |
time | Date and time of the sighting in UTC |
effortid | Effort ID |
cue | The sighting cue that initially drew the observers attention |
behavior | Behavior |
geom | Geometry field added by OBIS-SEAMAP |
typevlts | Flag to indicate the first observation sighting on transect (F) or others. |
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OBIS-SEAMAP ID | 1247 |
Seabirds | 0 |
Marine mammals | 261 |
Sea turtles | 0 |
Rays and sharks | 12 |
Other species | 6 |
Non spatial | 0 |
Non species | 6 |
Total | 285 |
Date, Begin | 2012-03-28 |
Date, End | 2012-05-03 |
Temporal prec. | 111111 |
Latitude | 39.69 - 44.92 |
Longitude | -73.30 - -65.27 |
Coord. prec. | 6 decimal digits |
Platform | Plane |
Data type | Animal sighting |
Effort | YES (ID: 1248) |
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Traveled (km) | 6,445 |
Effort hours | 32 |
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Registered | 2015-02-25 |
Updated | 2015-04-10 |
Status | Published |
Sharing policy |
CC0 no rights reserved |
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